How much revenue did Gloomwood make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gloomwood sell?

Q: How many copies did Gloomwood sell?

209k to 340k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 209k–340k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Gloomwood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gloomwood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 297k–927k

best case 2.2M (Bodycam)

Games like Gloomwood

A typical game among these

≈ 297k–927k copies

≈ $2.9M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Bodycam at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Realistic, priced around $33.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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